Tag: ocean

So it began…

So it began
Some billions of years ago
In pools such as these
On the shores of a boiling sea

From the humblest beginnings
A miracle still
Such simple creatures
Would become the miracle, me

Sometimes I step into a place
So expansive
It fills me up

I see my own boundaries
Are merely frontiers
To be explored

Sometimes, just before the sun crests the sky
I close my eyes
Let the colours flood my mind
And fill my heart

I listen to the earth
And her creatures
Awakening

There is something about a sunset
A mood…
It’s a closing, a wind-down
It’s the deep breath at the end of a task

But a sunrise…
Awakenings, beginnings
Arisen possibilities
A sunrise is anticipation

Concrete and glass
Water
Calm below
Crystalline wisps above

Amber and rouge
Blue and black
Skyline betwixt
The sky and sea

Vibrant
Important
Utilitarian

Once

Abandoned
Derelict
Unprofitable

Now

In the calm after
Clouds trail listlessly
Lying low in the valleys
Or spread thinly in the sky
While the sun’s last rays
Glimmer off the glassy ocean

Roaring down the sound
With angry ferocity
Kicking up white caps
Driving breakers onto shore

I lean into the attacking wind
Hold the camera steady
As the battalion of clouds
Advance, malice intended

There’s a city on the bay
A beautiful skyline
Under the mountains
Surrounded by calm ocean

But what built the city
As much as the hands of men
Is the bay and a river
A natural crossroads

I rise from slumber
From darkness
Dawn light trickles in

Time enough
My phone says
For the walk